Keyboard activation in Presentation mode

Is it possible without vba to have an action button behave as a keyboard
keystroke? For example, I create an "A" key; in presentation mode someone
clicks the key and it prints out an "A". Will I need to use activex buttons
instead? I thought about pure trigger animation and building the characters
myself through custom animation but that seemed too tedious... I also want to
build a working ppt or pptx calculator in the same fashion but have come
across the same problem... Any suggestions?

Chirag
Thu May 08 13:37:21 CDT 2008

Without VBA it does not seem possible. For a VBA solution, look at the
PowerPoint Calculator at http://officeone.mvps.org/vba/ppt_calculator.html

It uses Shortcut Manager for PowerPoint from
http://officeone.mvps.org/ppsctmgr/ppsctmgr.html to enable interactions
using the keyboard during the slide show.

- Chirag

PowerShow - View multiple PowerPoint slide shows simultaneously
http://officeone.mvps.org/powershow/powershow.html

"James" <James@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:3B666E40-9714-4160-9C16-9A01E940A8EA@microsoft.com...
> Is it possible without vba to have an action button behave as a keyboard
> keystroke? For example, I create an "A" key; in presentation mode someone
> clicks the key and it prints out an "A". Will I need to use activex
> buttons
> instead? I thought about pure trigger animation and building the
> characters
> myself through custom animation but that seemed too tedious... I also want
> to
> build a working ppt or pptx calculator in the same fashion but have come
> across the same problem... Any suggestions?